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PATNA, India — At least 21 children died and more than two dozen others were sick after eating a free school lunch that was tainted with insecticide, Indian officials said Wednesday.
It was not immediately clear how chemicals ended up in the food in a school in the eastern state of Bihar. One official said the food may not have been properly washed before it was cooked.
The children, between the ages of 8 and 11, fell ill Tuesday soon after eating lunch in Gandamal village in Masrakh block, 80 kilometers (50 miles) north of the state capital of Patna. School authorities immediately stopped serving the meal of rice, lentils, soybeans and potatoes as the children started vomiting.
Savita, an 11-year-old student who uses only one name, said she had a stomach ache after eating soya and potatoes and started vomiting.
"I don't know what happened after that," Savita told The Associated Press at Patna Medical College Hospital, where she and many other children were recovering.
The lunch, part of a popular national campaign to give at least one daily hot meal to children from poor families, was cooked in the school kitchen.
The children were rushed to a local hospital and later to Patna for treatment, said state official Abhijit Sinha.
In addition to the 21 children who died, another 26 children and the school cook were hospitalized, he said. Ten of them were in serious condition.
Authorities suspended an official in charge of the free meal scheme in the school and registered a case of criminal negligence against the school headmaster, who fled as soon as the children fell ill.
Angry villagers, joined by members of local opposition parties, closed shops and businesses near the school and overturned and burned four police vehicles.
P.K. Sahi, the state education minister, said a preliminary investigation suggested the food contained an organophosphate used as an insecticide on rice and wheat crops. It's believed the grain was not washed before it was served at the school, he said.
However, local villagers said the problem appeared to be with a side dish of soybeans and potatoes, not grain. Children who had not eaten that dish were fine, although they had eaten the rice and lentils, several villagers told the AP.
Sinha said the cooked food and kitchen utensils have been seized by investigators. "Whether it was a case of negligence or was intentional, we will only know once the inquiry has been conducted," he said.
India's midday meal scheme is one of the world's biggest school nutrition programs. State governments have the freedom to decide on menus and timings of the meals, depending on local conditions and availability of food rations. It was first introduced in southern India, where it was seen as an incentive for poor parents to send their children to school.
Since then the program has been replicated across the country, covering some 120 million school children. It's as part of an effort to address concerns about malnutrition, which the government says nearly half of all Indian children suffer from.
Although there have been occasional complaints about the quality of the food served, or the lack of hygiene, the tragedy in Bihar appeared to be unprecedented for the massive food program.
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BERLIN -- Emergency officials called to check out a suspected gas leak in Germany found a culprit they didn't expect: a fridge full of rotting food.
Police in the city of Braunschweig said that the fire service evacuated an apartment block after being alerted to the smell of gas by a resident.
They then searched for the source and traced it to a fridge in the apartment of the 35-year-old woman who had alerted authorities. It wasn't plugged in and was full of rotting food.
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"Thanksgiving Day gone, the Christmas season with its busy shopping days approaches. In this respect Negroes of Harlem and vicinity will contribute their full share. The opportunity therefore presents itself for them to observe how much of this money spent is returned to them in the form of employment."
My father wrote these words in a column dated Dec. 5, 1936, in which he lamented the fact that 75 percent of the patronage of businesses on 125th Street "comes from Negroes. Yet even the casual observer may note that Negroes comprise less than 25 percent of the employees on that street."
Ebenezer chided Blumstein's Department Store, one of his frequent targets, for its announcement in the black press the year before that it had employed "60 Harlemites" on its staff. He argued that it would be hard to find 60 black employees in Blumstein's with a microscope and that some of those department store workers may well have lived in Harlem, but they were not black.
"Negroes are not interested in how many Harlemites the Blumstein store or other stores on 125th Street employ. They are interested in HOW MANY NEGROES ARE EMPLOYED. And we take this opportunity to tell these store owners that Negroes expect a commensurate share of employment as clerks in these stores during this Christmas season."
Jobs and economic parity for black Americans are on the wish list this Christmas season as well. The national unemployment rate has declined to 7.7 percent. The rate of black unemployment, while lower than it was, is 13 percent.
With this in mind, black leaders met in Washington recently to set an agenda for keeping the black community from a steeper fiscal cliff. The meeting was convened by Marc H. Morial, President & CEO of the National Urban League, Rev. Al Sharpton, head of the National Action Network, Ben Jealous, President of the NAACP, and Melanie Campbell of the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation. The communiqué issued after the meeting outlined five key areas of focus.
* achieve economic parity for African-Americans
* promote equity in educational opportunity
* protect and defend voting rights
* promote a healthier nation by eliminating healthcare disparities
* achieve comprehensive reform of the criminal justice system
"We African American civil rights and social justice leaders come together on the heels of another historic election — one in which African Americans played a crucial and decisive role in securing a second term for the Obama Administration, and in the outcomes of numerous U.S. Senate, U.S. House, gubernatorial, state legislative, mayoral and other races across the nation.
"We, the undersigned organizations are bound by our common goal to protect, promote and defend the rights, well-being and opportunity of 42 million African Americans.
"As we approach the 50th anniversary of the Great March on Washington and the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, we must have a seat at the table to fully leverage the talents, intellectual capital and contributions of our leaders to craft a domestic agenda that brings African Americans closer to parity and equality, and fulfills the promise of these milestones."
Just as my father wanted to ensure that neighborhood merchants did not take black Harlemites' dollars for granted, black America expects that its considerable political clout be fully appreciated as well.


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The presidents race is a fixture at home games for the Washington Nationals baseball team. In the middle of the fourth inning, a race is conducted between the four presidents featured on Mount Rushmore — George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abe Lincoln, and Teddy Roosevelt.
During the Nationals first season in Washington, the presidents race was little more than a cute bit of mid-inning entertainment conducted on the RFK Stadium electronic scoreboard. When the Lerner family purchased the Nationals in July of 2006, they introduced live, costumed racing presidents with oversized heads who entered the stadium from the right field corner and ran along the field towards a finish line near home plate. The new, big-headed presidents were an immediate hit.
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It wasn't apparent to most fans at first, but astute observers of the presidents race began to realize that something unusual was at foot. Day in and day out, the presidents race would be entertaining and occassionally competitive, but no matter how good a start he got, Teddy would somehow always falter before he reached the finish line. That first season finished with Teddy as the only winless racing president.
The streak continued in 2007. The Washington Nationals improved to a fourth place finish as their long rebuilding process continued, and Teddy's relentless pursuit of his first victory in the Presidents Race became a rallying cry for fans.
2008 looks to be a huge year for Teddy Roosevelt and the Washington Nationals. As the team moves into its new ball park, the big question on the minds of many fans will be whether the team will finally let Teddy win.
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Do you think this is the year? Is it time for Teddy to break out? Join me in showing our support for Teddy to win the presidents race in 2008. The official Let Teddy Win shop is now open. As next season approaches, I hope to expand letteddywin.com to include standings, photos, videos, and community features.


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Hewlett-Packard Co. was sued by shareholders over its $8.8 billion writedown that the company said was partly related to falsified finances at Autonomy Corp., the British software maker it bought last year.
The complaint, filed today federal court in San Francisco, alleges that Hewlett-Packard issued false and misleading statements. The company concealed that it had gained control of Autonomy based on financial statements that were unreliable because of accounting manipulation, according to the complaint. Hewlett-Packard Chief Executive Officer Meg Whitman and the company's former CEO, Leo Apotheker, are named as defendants, along with Chief Financial Officer Catherine Lesjak.
"At the time Hewlett-Packard agreed in principle to acquire Autonomy, defendants were looking to unwind the deal in light of the accounting irregularities that plagued Autonomy's financial statements," according to the complaint.
Hewlett-Packard said Nov. 20 that $5 billion of the total charge is due to accounting practices, which were disclosed by a senior executive at Autonomy. Hewlett-Packard said it referred the matter to U.S. and U.K. securities regulators and will also pursue civil litigation.
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Hewlett-Packard said in a statement last week that some former members of Autonomy's management team used accounting misrepresentations to inflate its underlying financial performance before the acquisition. Mike Lynch, who founded Autonomy, defended the company's accounting practices in an interview last week.
Deloitte LLC said last week that it didn't find any evidence of improper accounting methods or misrepresentations when it last looked at Autonomy's finances before Hewlett- Packard bought the software company. Deloitte, which said it wasn't employed to do due diligence on the deal, last audited Autonomy's finances for the year ended Dec. 31, 2010.
Apotheker, 59, agreed in November 2011 to buy Autonomy for $10.3 billion to diversify away from hardware and expand into cloud-computing and add software that searches a broad range of data, including e-mails, music, videos and posts on social networks such as Facebook Inc. Apotheker left in 2011 after less than a year on the job following repeated strategy shifts and forecast cuts.
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It's been a tough and bizarre week for the Washington Nationals, who've had trouble finding their rhythm in the face of weather postponements, canceled off days and three unscheduled double-headers.
So too for the racing presidents, who continued a tradition of joining the Nats as they visited Pittsburgh's PNC Park on Friday only to get rained out; but Saturday night, Abe Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt were on hand to finally kick off the series with an unofficial foot race vs. two of Pittsburgh's racing pierogies, Cheese Chester and Jalapeño Hannah.
As for that bad rhythm, Teddy Roosevelt completely ignored the starter's call and jumped out to a huge lead, but ran out of gas mid-race and was passed by the field, with Jalapeño Hannah taking the tape for the Pierogies.
And for the record, thank goodness the Nationals' PA announcer doesn't sound like this guy:
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The Washington Nationals racing presidents continued to cement their position as DC icons with an appearance in yesterday's National Cherry Blossom Festival Parade.
The presidents were decked in their Nationals uniforms and got to ride in style on the back of individual bicycle taxis.
It was a rare opportunity for the racing presidents to appear with the blooming cherry blossoms. Nationals Park, of course, has a much-touted row of cherry blossom trees in the centerfield plaza, but the team has yet to play a regular season game when the cherry blossoms are in bloom. With this year's home opener scheduled for April 13 and a rainy week in the forecast, it seem likely we'll have to wait another year to witness that spectacle.
The appearance by George, Tom, Abe, and Teddy came just hours before the first unofficial presidents race of the 2009 Nationals Park season. Last night's annual preseason game vs. the Baltimore Orioles offered no hints that the presidents race will play out any differently for poor Teddy. He had an early lead, but failed to even finish as George Washington took the tape handily.
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So this blog post should really be a post of the numerous ways the month of September has come and is exiting before my head has been able to wrap itself around it all. Surely I am not the only mom who finds herself witnessing myself both coming and going in the middle of the dark of night, right?
My new purse is even sporting some tag-along buddies. I don't think I go anywhere any more without things packed into my purse that aren't really mine. And despite the extra poundage, I wouldn't really change the rest of it.
Well, maybe I'd change my sleep schedule: to bed late (or early) and it takes me forever to fall asleep and up no later than 5AM or we are ALL off late for the day already. A change with these hours would be helpful, but I honestly don't see that happening anytime soon. Teaching doesn't end with the kids leave… or even when my kids finally crash and go to bed. (PS…they have been in bed for 45 minutes now… and the Chicklet just asked via the monitor "Hey Mom, what's my cake going to look like?" "Your cake?" "Yes, for my birthday." "Babe….your birthday is in May. It's September. We have a while to think about it, okay?" = this is the kind of thing that never ends around here….LOL) Evidence: apple slices + goofy face photos…despite a few attempts we don't have ONE photo for BOTH smiling nor BOTH making a goofy face at the same time. Egad.
So I decided to share my working mom "Sanity Saver" meals. I've been asking and posting here when I thought my world was careening off track, but seldom have I posted when I have done it right (finally) for a month. I challenged myself this month to get the meals down and stick to them.
Next month, I am challenging myself to:
- only go to the grocery store every 10 days to 2 weeks
- STICK to my grocery budget – and SAVE every penny that I don't spend in an account for a family trip
- stick to my meal plan (come high water or sleep exhaustion)
- stick to a reduced (extremely) budget for "eating out"
Seriously. I'm starting at ZERO here people. There is only room to grow, right?
Some of you are experts at all of the above (budgeting, time-management, meal-planning, saving (!), etc) but these are things I tend to stick to for a short time and then meander down some random thought-path-etc and I blow it. We have had TWO four-day vacations/trips in the last EIGHT YEARS of our lives. (My Love does NOT get time off from work.) But we've had SO much fun on these rapid-paced trips to see family (my parents/his parents) that we want to do it more often. And now the girls have seen an ad for Disney Land and CarsLand.
Yeap. My budget better get in gear. NOW.
Want to follow along on my endeavor? Care to add your two cents/tips? I'd love to hear them!
Okay… enough meandering. Some of you are just here for the list of my weeknight go-to meals. Take note: the meals on this list HAD to be able to be prepared and ready to go in under an hour (or toddler + mom meltdown ensures). Well, here it is:
- fajitas (chicken or flank steak)
- enchiladas
- taco salad
- one-pot rice dish (random meat/tofu, rice, veggies – a la jambalaya)
- tarragon chicken tenders
- Bo-jay-fan (Chinese one-pot chicken/rice/sausage/mushroom)
- pork chops and apples
- steamed fish + tofu
- split pea soup (thank you crock pot)
- jambalaya
- quinoa salad (a la fried rice/couscous – NOTE couscous is NOT gluten free!)
- pasta salad (schars or jovial)
- parfait (yogurt + granola)
- pancakes (corn ones here) or waffles (to save time, i've made "waffles" in a panini pan with pancake batter )
- chicken chili
- mongolian beef (marinate night before or immediately upon returning home for 45 min at least)
- spaghetti (schars, jovial or homemade on the weekend)
- lasagna (no boil/lazy method – make ahead, pop in oven)
- pot pie (make ahead OR make muffin-sized (lunch/dinner) OR make with crescent roll dough for last minute)
- roasts (pork loin is our favorite as faster than whole chicken, etc)
- meatballs and mashed/roasted potatoes
- kebabs
- tortilla española (potatoes, eggs, onions, seasoning) – leftovers are great lunches too
- shrimp and grits
- chicken marsala
- risotto
- lettuce wraps
- migas
- corned beef (crock pot or reheat after cooking on Sunday), roasted cabbage
- curried chicken
- beef and broccoli
- spicy green beans and tofu
- arroz con pollo
- baharat chicken or lamb
- chowder (Chinese corn, OR salmon/fish, etc – whatever you got and put it in a pot!)
- arepa sandwiches
- jibaro sandwiches (plantains, flank steak, etc)
- burgers (bean or beef) (speedy buns – done in the oven while I grill/cook burger or pao-d-quejo buns – quick too!)
- beef stroganoff but served over rice, mashed potatoes, steamed cauliflower/broccoli in lieu of noodles
- teriyaki chicken (or whatever is on hand)
- quiche
- fried rice
- ….leftovers! (the great list ender…I try to use up leftovers for lunch, but often there is a bit more)
I hope this list helps someone else pull a menu plan together. My trusty purple spiral bound notebook and I roam the aisles of the grocer trying to make sure I have it all together. Maybe that will be what I share next? Ay! Who knows!
Hopefully now that I am getting my feet under me at school the next blog post won't be delayed as long as this one has been. I'm sorry – and THANK YOU for sticking with me.
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Racing president Teddy Roosevelt's Memorial Day red herring apparently generated enough interest to inspire even more national outrage over Wednesday's disqualification.
Following reports from prominent sites including Sports Illustrated, Yahoo! Sports, CBS Sports, and NBC Washington, a number of prominent and not-so-prominent bloggers weighed in Thursday with jeers, tributes, and at least one proposal for Teddy Roosevelt.
Dayn Perry of FanGraphs.com offered a warning
to Nationals mascot Screech, reminding the presidents race judge what the great Teddy Roosevelt does to "lower-evolved varmints who
get between him and what's his."
DC public relations and marketing professional Mike Holden yesterday offered a novel proposal
for the Nationals, suggesting in his blog that the team hold out a Teddy victory in exchange for season ticket sales. Of all the theories and suggestions I've heard for letting Teddy win, this one may be both the most creative and most lucrative for promoting the team.
Poet and Nationals fan Dan Creeden of Scaggsville, Maryland was inspired this week to publish a poem and a song about Teddy's quest. Creeden blames Abe Lincoln for the bias against Teddy, citing jealousy ("Teddy has a cute bear named after him and Lincoln only has Logs."). He followed a riff on the classic "Casey at the Bat" with a rewrite of Elton John's "Benny and the Jets" called T-T-Teddy and the Nats.
Anthony Schneck of Sportsology offered his own spin on Teddy's disqualification, noting that "contestants may not use Segways during the race because Segways are the universal symbol for douchebaggery."
Brandon Stroud of the With Leather Blog asks "Why would they do this to a GEICO President? Is it because he was in the Progressive party?"
Finally, David Brown of Big League Stew points out what we failed to note here Wednesday — that Teddy has tried cheating with a Segway before, but failed to come in first.


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Many seniors go directly from the hospital to Hospice Care after a serious fall, aneurysm or stroke. In this case, the hospital may make a recommendation for a Hospice care provider (that pays the hospital for customers) and most family are too grief stricken to look for other options. If a senior has a slowly degrading medical condition, the family has more time to find a Illinois Hospice Care center that will make a difference. Either way, this time is very stressful.


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NOTES from the UNDERGROUND… No.143 | June 10, 2008
Curt Johnson: 1928-2008
Gott ist gross und Gott ist gut.
Dear Friends,
I just learned that Chicago writer and publisher, Curt Johnson, died.
I was a friend, we were friends, for over 40 years. He was one of the best writers out there, and never received the attention he deserved, slugging it out for so many years with his own small press and magazine, december, for so many of us who looked forward to reading whatever he was up to, as well as hoping to some day get the official nod from Curt, to be included in anything he edited and published. Among his early 'finds' Ray Carver.
I can't imagine the literary small press scene in America without the no bullshit attitude of Curt, always hovering over the scene, separating the crapola (Academia and government grants) from the writers who wrote solid, lived the little mag/small press life–no strings attached. Curt had an eye for those folks. It's no wonder his heroes were writers like Nelson Algren and Jack Conroy. The poetry of the streets, the working stiff. The school of hard knocks.Tell it (in writing) like it is–is something Johnson wrote and lived, long before it became the popular thing to say
As the publisher and editor of Cross+Roads Press, one of the projects and books I'm proudest of is SALUD, Selected Writings by Curt Johnson. It was a bear of a book to work on, there was so much of his writing that deserved to be to included, it took far longer than I imagined, but luckily Curt was alive (though not well) and in touch via phone, snail-mail, and his daughter,Paula. I wanted him around to see this book happen, introduce him to young writers and readers who never heard of him, or may have forgotten he was still around. Which happened, to some degree. And that was just last year–2007. I'll never forget his smile, when I delivered the first copy to SALUD to him and his eyes began to well, standing there in the kitchen of his small house in Highland Park, Illinois. "It's beautiful, Norbert…beautiful," he whispered in his gravely voice. One of the small satisfactions of small press publishing that few will understand or experience. To print something to make sure that writers like Curt are not forgotten.
But I remain more than unhappy over the reception of SALUD in the hometown, Chicago. Not one goddamn newspaper or literary magazine gave SALUD or Curt the print he deserved. Believe me, I contacted all of them. It was like tossing copies over a cliff. Granted, he had made some enemies in the media world in his time. He did not suffer fools or what he perceived as injustice. But for all the time, effort, concern that he put into 'the city of the big shoulders" that they should give him the cold shoulder pisses me off considerably, to this very day.
Only the little mags and newspapers, publications read mostly by other writers gave it some print–and continue to give it some attention (one even featuring Curt at their writer of that issue)–most of this thanks to the tireless efforts of Milwaukee writer, Charles Ries, who maintains a passionate mission to 'get the word out there.' For which I thank him again here.
But I'm still waiting to hear more than wind from the Windy City. Chicago, where the hell are you? You lost a champ. Somebody, please wake up Oprah. Not to mention the Trib, Sun-Times, Chicago Magazine, all the alternative newspapers, all the literary mags still riding whatever small wave was once the Chicago writing scene.
Rest in piece, old friend. The important thing: You got it all down on paper, kept the faith, said it well. It's their loss.
norb blei
Let us turn over the page
And see what is written
On the other side of the night.
—Thomas McGrath
P.S. Copies of SALUD are still available. $15 plus $2 postage from CROSS+ROADS PRESS, PO Box 33, Ellison Bay, WI 54210. Blatant advertising. An out-and-out pitch. (Curt would have loved it. I can see him grinning). For those of you who enjoy reading essays, short stories, memoirs, novels, satire, political commentary, etc. For anyone out there who wants to become a writer or a publisher, or knows someone who is entertaining the notion of writing seriously, here's the book. Not "How To" but "How It Is". Curt wrote this one for you.


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Nearly 500 students from UMass Dartmouth's Chartlon College of Business mark graduation
DARTMOUTH — The commencement ceremony for the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth's Charlton College of Business certainly had its weather challenges. The university's turbine turned fitfully in the background, and a gust blew off Chancellor Divina Grossman's blue felt cap as she stood at the podium. Thankfully, a woman caught the cap and returned it.
That didn't mean this first in a weekend of graduation ceremonies for the 114th UMass Dartmouth commencement on a cloudy Friday morning had the wind taken out of its sails.
The Rev. Robert Lawrence — with ties to Fall River, Westport and the university — set the tone early during his invocation by quoting noted physician and philosopher Albert Schweitzer and the Ghost of Jacob Marley from "A Christmas Carol."
Those that are happiest are "those that have sought and found how to serve," Lawrence quoted from Schweitzer.
Lawrence then invoked Marley's famous quote to Scrooge as a word of advice to the nearly 500 undergraduate and graduate school diploma recipients: "Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business."
"This is a ceremony built on enduring traditions and also one that looks to the horizon," said Grossman, presiding over her second commencement. "You're here to commence, and you're just getting started."
Robert F. Leduc — an aircraft industry leader and Fall River native who received his mechanical engineering degree from UMass Dartmouth in 1978 — was the featured speaker. If someone had told him 36 years ago that he'd deliver the commencement address as an alumnus, "I would never have dreamed it," he said.
Leduc — who was also celebrating his 33rd anniversary with his wife, Jeanne — shared contrasting stories.
He was appointed an adviser to Advent International, one of the world's largest private equity firms, after a 36-year career at United Technologies Corp.
He and his wife founded the Leduc Center for Civic Engagement at UMass Dartmouth in 2011. Its aim is to encourage students to apply their learning in ways that benefit their communities.
After being conferred with an honorary doctorate degree from the business college, Leduc shared his roots.
He said he came from Fall River, from God-fearing, hard-working and blue-collar parents. His father did not graduate from high school.
"He and my mother quietly sacrificed," he said appreciatively, while extolling the value of his college diploma.
Leduc told graduates about five building blocks that can make a difference in the work force.
• "Question, question, question," he said, urging the young and men and women graduating to examine situations "through multiple lenses."
• Before thinking "outside the box" for innovations, know "what's inside the box" to build credibility so ideas are better accepted.
• "Don't be afraid to fail." As an example, he talked about leading a $1 billion program designed to sell 10,000 engines. They sold 100.
• "Respect colleagues and customers and treat them like gold." It can take a lifetime to build those relationships but only seconds to destroy them, he said.
• Being moral and ethical and having integrity is essential.
Nikita Rao, who majored in both marketing and finance, delivered the student address just two years after coming to UMass Dartmouth for her MBA degree. She offered inspiration without trying to.
She came alone without family or friends. She grew up in India and lost her father early in life. With limited means, her mother valued education, Rao said.
"Today, I am standing here in front of you because of our wonderful university," Rao said.
She imparted her biggest lesson. "Success is satisfaction in what you do," she said.
She plans to pursue a doctorate in customer behavior and market research.
An audience of about 2,000 seated at the university's Vietnam Veterans Peace Memorial Amphitheater applauded the 151 graduate students in royal blue robes and 341 undergraduates in black robes who completed studies at the Charlton College of Business. Charlton is the second-largest of UMass Dartmouth's five colleges with combined undergraduate and graduate programs.
In all, 1,587 students representing 210 Massachusetts communities, 21 states and 23 countries will be receiving diplomas this weekend, including graduates of the law and marine science schools. Accounting, with 101 graduates, is the top business major and fourth-largest among all of the colleges.
New Bedford with 177 graduates, Fall River with 112, Dartmouth with 88, Taunton with 37 and Somerset with 36 represent the top five communities sending students to UMass Dartmouth.
Grossman helped present her Chancellor's Medal to Katherine Craven, who played a lead role in the UMass Building Authority's $3.8 billion program to modernize the UMass system's five campuses.
Perhaps as an echo in the wind to the wisdom of Jacob Marley, Leduc gave the graduates and their guests a bit of perspective.
He said there are seven billion people in the world and five and a half billion — two billion of them children — live on less than $5 a day. One-third of them can neither read nor write.
"There is no greater cause in your life than to help those in need and those less fortunate," Leduc said.
He ended with: "Thank you. Go Corsairs!"


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Shame on me for missing this one, but Sunday's Shark attack by Teddy Roosevelt was more than just a celebration of Shark Week.
As Dan Steinberg pointed out in the outstanding DC Sports Bog, there was a Boston Red Sox cap stuck in Teddy's teeth.
The cap was a swipe at Red Sox manager Terry Francona, who had taken his own swipe at Nationals fans and the presidents race during a conversation with reporters. "We don't need to have president races or mustard racing ketchup", he said. "Our fans like our baseball, and I actually really think that's cool. Nothing against mustard."
Funny. When I visited last summer, Fenway felt like a giant after-work happy hour, they played a watered-down version of baseball with a DH, tossed beach balls in the stands, and fans poured out early because the team was losing.
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Richard Spare
Drypoint and watercolour
Somerset Textured White 300gsm handmade cotton paper
Image Size: 120 × 115mm
Paper Size: 255 × 250mm
Edition: 100
Richard studied painting at Maidstone College of Art (1971-74). He has continued to produce his own work ever since and has become intensely involved in printmaking.
A Master printmaker, Richard has editioned work for many contemporary artists, including David Hockney, Robert Ryman, Francesco Clemente, Donald Sultan and Keith Haring. In 1977 he worked with David Hockney as his assistant, setting up an etching studio for him. It was an interesting time as Richard was able to watch Hockney at work on his sets for the Glyndebourne 'Magic Flute'. In 1988 Richard spent several months in New York working with Jasper Johns, proofing and editioning complex carborundum prints.
Today, Richard concentrates solely on his own work, which derives from nature and travel. The garden he has designed at his studio in Charlton is a rich source of inspiration. Filled with hollyhocks, foxgloves, poppies and wisteria, it is a small haven for wildlife and has been a starting point for many of his prints. Richard's studio is a homage to the art of printmaking, with its lovingly-restored antique etching presses, housed in a converted Victorian coach house.
A frequent exhibitor at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition and a twice invited exhibitor at the Discerning Eye exhibition at the Mall Galleries, Richard also regularly shows his work internationally.
Solo international shows include a series of annual exhibitions throughout Japan, spanning eleven years, which included Tokyo, Fukuoka, Osaka, Yokohama, Hiroshima, Matsuyama, Sendai, Sapporo, Kobe, Kyoto, Nagoya, Kagoshima, Kawagoe, and Nara. He has also had solo shows in Ballarat and Daylesford, Victoria, Australia. He has been Guest International Artist at the Toorak Village Art Affair, Melbourne.
In November 2017 Richard travelled once again to attend 28 solo shows of his work in cities across the whole of Japan, from Hokkaido in the north to the Pacific Islands in the south. This beautiful country, its art and traditions, continue to be an abiding influence on his work.
Solo shows in the UK include The Craft Centre & Design Gallery, Leeds City Art Gallery, Trevelyan College, University of Durham and The Burton Art Gallery, Bideford, Devon.
Notable mixed shows include The Art on paper Fair at the Royal College of Art and the Originals, Society of Wildlife Artists and Royal Society of British Artists Open exhibitions at the Mall Galleries.
Richard's work appears in many collections worldwide; public collections include: The Victoria & Albert Museum, British Library, Museum of London, Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, Royal Cornwall Museum, Trevelyan College, University of Durham, Aston University, Chelmsford Museum, Penlee House Museum and Gallery, Leeds Art Gallery, Maidstone Museum, Imperial Health Charity, Art in Healthcare, The Central and Regional Library of Berlin and Federation University Australia, Ballarat, Victoria.
Richard is primarily a printmaker and draws directly into the copper plate (to the extent of lugging a box of copper plates away on holiday!).
In 'drypoint' the image is inscribed into the plate surface (in this case, copper), with a sharp etching needle. Depending on the force and angle used (and Richard likes to incise the surface very deeply - which, unfortunately, is rather painful on the fingers!) fine, sharp pieces of metal are thrown up either side of the line. This burr holds ink, as does the furrow created by the needle, and the result is a warm, velvety line.
The copper plate is then electroplated ('steelfaced') with a fine layer of iron, to give the burr the strength to withstand the printing process.
Inking up and wiping the plate is done by hand, before it is run through an etching press. Years of experience have taught Richard exactly how much ink to leave on the plate to achieve the specific velvety effect he wants.
The 100% pure cotton paper is printed damp so that it readily moulds itself to the plate and accepts the ink. His etching press is an antique; indeed the process has changed very little since the days of Rembrandt!
The plate is re-inked, wiped and run through the press for each print made, and thus each print will vary slightly.
Finally, after the drying process, each print is hand-coloured, signed and numbered. When the edition is completed, the plate is defaced or destroyed.
Etching, engraving, aquatint, drypoint and mezzotint techniques are all termed 'intaglio' - i.e. the image is held in marks made into the printing surface. A characteristic of intaglio prints is the 'platemark', an impressed mark around the image, caused by the plate and paper being forced together in the printing press.
The meticulous hand painting with carefully selected watercolour, - each colour chosen for its vibrancy with the rich drypoint line, often takes as long as the printing process.
So for example the 'Perching Kingfisher' will be one of an edition of only 100; each hand-printed, hand watercoloured, then signed, titled and numbered by Richard. There is thus no one original, as there would be with a painting. Each drypoint print is an original, each one being slightly different and sold in a limited edition. Indeed the art world refers to handmade prints as 'original prints', as they are not reproductions and not mass/machine-produced.
When the edition is completed, the plate is chopped up on the studio guillotine (formerly Sidney Nolan's) and recycled.


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The genea-bloggers are caroling! footnoteMaven over at footnoteMaven will be hosting all of the carolers real soon! Please go visit her site.
For my carol, I've chosen "Mary, Did You Know" – the Kenny Rogers/Wynonna Judd version.
Mary, did you know
that your baby boy will one day walk on water?
Mary, did you know
that your baby boy will save our sons and daughters?
Did you know,
that your baby boy has come to make you new?
This child that you've delivered,
will soon deliver you.
Mary, did you know
that your baby boy will give sight to a blind man?
Mary, did you know
your baby boy will calm a storm with his hand?
Did you know,
that your baby boy has walked where angels trod?
When you kiss your little baby,
you've kissed the face of God.
The blind will see
The deaf will hear
The dead will live again.
The lame will leap
The dumb will speak
The praises of The Lamb.
Mary, did you know
that your baby boy is Lord of all creation?
Mary, did you know
that your baby boy will one day rule the nations?
Did you know,
that your baby boy is heaven's perfect lamb?
This sleeping child you're holding, is the great I AM.
(You can watch this video at YouTube.) This song is on Kenny Rogers' "The Gift" CD and was released in 1996. It was written by Buddy Greene and Mark Lowry. Lowry was asked by his church congregation in 1984 to write a song for Advent. In Christianity Today, he said,
I tried to picture Mary holding the baby Jesus on the first Christmas morning and wondered what she was thinking about that child. She knew he was special—the Virgin Birth was her first clue—but could she ever imagine all the things that he would do while he was here?
Buddy Greene supplied the music for the lyrics six years later and the song was complete. Besides Lowry and the duet of Rogers/Judd, it's also been recorded by about 30 artists including Rascal Flatts, Reba McEntire and Kathleen Battle.
The first time I heard this song – several Christmases ago – I was in my room wrapping gifts, and felt such a peace settle over me as the music and lyrics touched the depth of my soul. As a mother – and a mother of a son – I am inspired and awed by Mary. I find myself wondering if, despite the knowledge of who and what her son was to be, she wanted to shield and protect him, just as any other mother would do. I hear the words "baby boy", and remember how I used to gaze at my newborn son many years ago, wondering what he was to become and knowing that there were so many opportunities for him and dreams for him to follow.
Merry Christmas!


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Last Friday morning, one of my Facebook friends and a favorite genealogist, Lisa Lee, posted a "press release" on her wall announcing that the Walt Disney Company had made a deal to purchase Ancestry.com. The company planned to create a thrill ride called "Memory Lane," which would "take guests on a magical journey through their own ancestral history." The ride would require an advance booking and a three-generation pedigree chart to give operators time to "create a customized experience," complete with photos, sounds, images and historical facts about their ancestor's lives.
Some Facebook visitors saw through it right away. I, following the journalistic tenet, "Even if your mother tells you, check it out," searched for other evidence of the acquisition.
It was an April Fool's joke. But good one.
Later that evening, I watched the NBC version of Who do You Think You Are? a program in which celebrities trace their roots. I've learned a lot about Lionel Richie, whose great-grandfather J. Louis Brown, was a principal organizer and Supreme Grand Archon of the Knights of Wise Men, a fraternal organization for black men that formed after the Civil War. It was affirming to hear Richie talk about his community in Tuskegee, Ala. The adults who surrounded him and his sister, Deborah, were doctors and lawyers and holders of PhDs. These adults protected their children from the horrors of Jim Crow. "If the Klan was coming to protest through the streets of Tuskegee, our parents put us to bed early," said Richie, who was raised on the campus of Tuskegee Institute. (That episode got me thinking about, Richie's daughter Nicole, and what the experience of tracing one's ancestry must be like for adopted children. )
Other episodes this season have featured Sex in the City's Kim Cattrall and character actor Steve Buscemi.
The April 1 episode on actress Gwyneth Paltrow hit home when it revealed that her maternal great-great grandmother, Rosamund Stout, was born in Barbados. It was fun to see genealogist Pat Stafford walk Paltrow though Barbados historical documents at the country's national archives, which we visited in December looking for clues to my father's family. With Stafford's help, Paltrow learned that her great-great grandmother was orphaned at 13 years old and at 18 boarded a commercial ship to the United States. Pedro Welch, a professor at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, offered Paltrow some background on the social climate on 19th-century Barbados and helped her understand why Rosamund and her older sister , the only passengers – and perhaps the only females – boarded a ship carrying salt and Colonial products. The commercial vessel was less expensive than a passenger ship, Welch explained. He added that after slaves were emancipated in 1934, lower-middle-class white women lost their jobs to free black women with the same skills who were willing to work for much less. Welch also noted that the male-female ratio was so out of proportion on the island that the prospects for marriage for these young white women would have been limited.
"So they were competing with other white women for the few available men," Paltrow concluded.
"And with some black women as well," Welch pointed out.
It made me think about the factors at work when my father, skilled as a printer, took off for Bermuda and then Harlem in 1923, while his brother, trained in the same profession, remained in Barbados.
NBC's "Who Do You Think You Are?" is an American adaptation of a BBC documentary series. I have not seen any of the BBC episodes. They are not available on Netflix, and when I try to watch clips on the web I'm told it's not available in my area. (Maybe I'll catch a few episodes when I get to London tomorrow.)
The NBC program is sponsored by Ancestry.com.
The Disney/Ancestry "press release" may have been an April Fool's ruse, but with the resurgence of interest in tracing our roots, don't be surprised to find a "Memory Lane" center theme park near you where visitors could begin to fill in their family trees.
In the meantime, my own journey is far more thrilling than any roller coaster ride. With every turn of a page, microfilm reel or conversation with a relative, I never know what I'm going to find. Who knows, Gwyenth might be a distant cousin!


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(ARA) - Michele Broulliard of Berkley, Mich., really loves animals. So much so that for years, she has dreamed about opening a bed and breakfast that would double as a daycare and spa for dogs -- a place where they could hang out with each other while their owners are unavailable. Where they could be with caretakers who would love and bond with them.
So how, she wondered, was she going to finance this ambitious endeavor? Brouillard considered the options: taking out a loan from a family member or friend, charging the start up costs on her credit card, tapping into her retirement funds, or taking out a home equity loan. She ultimately decided on the latter.
"I wasn't sure it was the right time to refinance, but my 3-year adjustable rate was rising and I decided I either had to refinance or sell the house. I didn't want to sell the house, so I called my mortgage banker at Quicken Loans," she says.
According to Bob Walters, chief economist at Quicken Loans, Michele's decision is not uncommon these days. "Tapping ones home equity for large expenses can often make more financial sense than charging those expenses to ones credit card. Home equity rates are often significantly lower than credit card rates, which reduces interest costs. In addition, unlike non-deductible credit card debt, interest on home equity loans is usually tax-deductible. Many savvy homeowners like the idea of having Uncle Sam help out when it comes time to repay those debts," says Walters.
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Her mortgage banker refinanced her into a 5-year adjustable rate mortgage and lowered her mortgage payment by around $600 a month -- that's $600 she's putting away towards the start-up costs of her business. Within a year, she'll have saved one-quarter of what she'll need -- that's a lot faster than she had originally anticipated.
"Since choosing the right loan program is often far more important than shaving one-eighth percent off of the rate on the wrong program, Quicken Loans prides itself on the in-depth analysis done with each client's situation to determine the optimal program and loan structure. Our home loan experts are trained to ask the right questions to match the right loan program with the client's goals. In addition, a culture of client focus, coupled with world class technology, means our mortgage bankers keep our clients informed at every step along the way," says Walters.
This focus on client service has served Quicken Loans well, resulting in the highest client satisfaction score in the industry, which in turn has contributed to their growth. Quicken Loans closed nearly $18 billion in home loans in 2006. The company recently posted the strongest month in their 22-year history, closing more than $2 billion in home loans in a single month in March 2007, and repeating the record again in April 2007. This growth has strengthened the company's position as the nation's largest online retail mortgage lender.
Broulliard adds, "I feel like I'm making progress and that I don't have to worry about where the money for my business is going to come from. My banker helped me see the light at the end of the tunnel and I'm much closer to opening the business than I ever thought possible!"
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Keeping the magic of romance alive – Sally Cronin
My thanks to Jacquie for inviting me to share my views on romance. It is one of the elements of our lives which is universal, and much sort after. People often ask what the secret to a happy relationship is… darned if I know. All I can offer you is some of the little things I have come to appreciate over the last 50 odd years of dating and relationships. Make that 55 as I had a crush on Peter Birch at primary school age ten which resulted in my first broken heart!
Because many of you who are reading this are writers, I thought you might be interested in a few statistics on the billion-dollar-a-year Romance book industry via Romance Writers
- The annual total sales of romance novels per year is in excess of a billion dollars.
- Romance novel share of the U.S. fiction market is 34%.
- 82% of romance readers are women.
- Average age is 35-39.
What interested me about these statistics is that romance is a hot ticket item. It is also evident that romantic stories are very much sought after by women, but clearly not as high on the list for men. Something that those who feel men are sometimes not as romantic as they might be, would find interesting!
Another statistic is that the average age of those seeking out romance stories is between the ages of 35-39… which begs the question… Do women in their 40s, 50s, 60s give up on romance, or they are simply not catered for by the romance writers?
Like most young girls of my generation, I was infused with the myths surrounding love and romance at an early age. Between fairy tales and my mother's desire to make the goal of romance clear cut in my mind, I surmised that at some point a Prince Charming, on a white horse, would sweep into my life, whisk me off my feet, and we would ride off into a future of bliss, children and Happy Ever After.
I was encouraged to take the available wisdom to heart, and with hopes and dreams of my own, embarked on my own dating adventures. The trouble with ingrained expectations is that they are not always as revered by others, particularly the opposite sex.
However, after some false starts, at the age of 20, a more mature Prince Charming of 26 did arrive, in uniform and driving a classic American sports car. It seemed that expectations had been met and exceeded, and it was crowned with a spectacular wedding with matriarchal approval on both sides. We drove off into the sunset with clanging tin cans behind the steed… which proved to be tolling bells of doom!
Trouble is what you see is not always what you get! And when compounded with differing expectations of what a relationship is supposed to be, and a lack of commitment of one of the participants, things tend to fall apart. After four years, some interesting life lessons, and an expensive legal intervention which took three years, I finally managed to extricate myself with a vow to never marry again.
Then wouldn't you know it, six months later, into my life walked a softly-spoken, unassuming guy who took me out on a date and asked me to marry him before the night was over. Five weeks later, without any ceremony, and with just our parents in attendance, we exchanged rings and our own vows.
The last 38 years have taught me that romance is not one-size fits all, is unique to two people who love each other, and is not always about red roses and chocolates.
Some of the elements that spell romance for me.
As Jeremy Taylor quoted 'Love is Friendship set on Fire'. Of course there is that initial, and amazing firework display of hormonally induced physical attraction, which then evolves over the years into a familiarity that can still be breathtaking. However, without the essential elements of like-mindedness, shared moral code, sense of humour, and appreciation of another's unique personality, the fire of romance slowly dies down to embers.
An analogy I often use for romance between two people, is that it is like an extended ballroom dance that flows and whirls with two partners in perfect sync. Always staying within the limits of the dance floor, allowing other styles come into play, with fiery tangos and playful sambas as the tempo of the music changes. Even when there is a momentary loss of connection, there is a coming together again, and the dance always finishes in a firm embrace.
Whilst there may be the occasional extravagant gesture when a special event warrants it, mostly it is the small things that keep romance alive and flourishing.
Red roses are wonderful, and we all love to receive a bouquet on Valentine's Day or an anniversary. But it is the odd flower brought in from the garden and laid on a breakfast tray, a small tree planted in the garden that blossoms every spring, or the paper flower, misshapen and oddly coloured that appears by a bedside, that really help to keep romance alive.
Romance is waking up on every birthday to find cards hand-made from images of sea, sunflowers, cats and dogs, golden sunsets with handwritten verses inside that come from the heart. It is also those few minutes on your wedding anniversary when you sit silently, holding hands and remembering that special day and the people who are no longer there to share the memories with you.
True romance flourishes when you are unwell and scared and a strong hand holds yours and a voice close to your ear, tells you that it will be alright, that you are safe. It is when you suffer a loss and cry together and heal together. It is when you walk through the door and someone says, 'hi love, how was your day?'
Romance is when the last words before you go to sleep are 'I love you'
Romance does exist after 39 years old, whatever the statistics might say.
Romance and love go hand in hand, and as I watch very old people together, you can tell the ones who still adore and respect each other. It is easy to still see that spark and twinkle in the eyes, the small touches of a hand or brush of lint from a shoulder. That unity has been welded from years of life, laughter, sadness, joy, disappointment, excitement and love. Thousands of cups of tea, breakfasts in bed, dances in the kitchen, date nights, holding hands in the movies and vigils by a sickbed, have gone into the rich tapestry that is romance. There might be a faded red rose pressed between the pages of a diary, or a diamond ring that comes out on special occasions, but it is these small daily gestures that will have kept the romance alive and will continue to do so long after one or both of them dies.
Romance is also about the things we don't do in a relationship.
We don't belittle someone we love in public and then say 'But you know I love you'.
We don't bully them and then say we are doing it 'Because you know I love you.'
We don't marry who we believe is Prince Charming or the fairy princess, and then set about changing them by saying 'You know it is because I love you.'
We don't take the actions of those we love for granted, and saying 'thank you' for a meal, a wardrobe full of clean clothes or for being a great mum or dad, goes a long way to keep romance alive.
Romance is not about making someone happy or expecting them to make you happy. Your happiness is your responsibility and choice. Putting the onus for your happiness on someone else is a very quick way to lose them.
I will leave you with one of my favourite poems on romance from Elizabeth Barrett Browning courtesy of The Poem Hunter
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
I love thee to the level of every day's
Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight.
I love thee freely, as men strive for Right;
I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise.
I love with a passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints, — I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life! — and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.
About Tales from the Irish Garden
The queen of Magia and her court have fled their sun filled Spanish homeland and the palace beneath the magnolia tree.
Arriving on the backs of geese and swans, they seek sanctuary in the magic garden of The Storyteller who welcomes them to the Emerald Island, a place where rain is almost a daily feature. Grateful for their safe haven and the generosity of their host, the queen and her courtiers embrace their new surroundings with delight.
As the seasons change throughout the year, they come into contact with many of the human and animal inhabitants of the garden and the surrounding forest, all of whom have a story to tell. This is a magical fairy story infused with fantasy and romance, as well as opportunities for mischief in the company of goblins, witches and Lerpersians. Suitable for ages 10 to 100 years old…..
Here is a selection of my other books… an amazing gif designed by Paul Andruss… thanks Paul
All my books in Ebook are available: Amazon UK
And Amazon US: Amazon US
You can read more reviews and follow me on Goodreads: Goodreads
Please connect to me via my Blog
Thank you Jacquie for or having me over and for allowing me to share my thoughts on Romance..♥


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ACLU eyes Boston bombing suspect's Miranda rights
BOSTON — The American Civil Liberties Union says it's concerned the surviving Boston Marathon bombing suspect will be questioned by investigators without being read his Miranda rights.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (joh-KAHR' tsahr-NY'-ehv) remained hospitalized Saturday after being wounded in a firefight with police Friday. His brother was killed earlier.
U.S. officials say a special interrogation team for high-value suspects will question Tsarnaev without reading him his Miranda rights, invoking a rare public safety exception triggered by the need to protect the public from immediate danger.
ACLU Executive Director Anthony Romero says the exception applies only when there's a continued threat to public safety and is "not an open-ended exception" to the Miranda rule.
Twin explosions near the Boston Marathon finish line Monday killed three people and wounded more than 180. Tsarnaev's father calls him a "true angel."


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Official: Recovering fallen climbers too dangerous
MOUNT RAINIER NATIONAL PARK, Wash. - Rescuers likely know the final resting place of six climbers who set out last week to attempt one of the most technical and physically grueling routes to the peak of Mount Rainier in Washington state.
But the danger of recovering the bodies of the two guides and four climbers believed to have fallen 3,300 feet from their last known location is too great, park officials say.
"People are very understanding that we cannot risk another life at this point," Patti Wold, a Mount Rainier National Park spokeswoman, said Sunday.
The climbers were last heard from at 6 p.m. Wednesday when the guides checked in with their Seattle-based company, Alpine Ascents International, by satellite phone. The group failed to return Friday as planned.
They are presumed dead in one of the worst alpine accidents on Rainier since 1981, when 11 people were struck and killed by a massive ice fall on the Ingraham Glacier.
Family and friends of the dead climbers arrived at the mountain Sunday to meet with park officials.
"They're just devastated," Wold said.
It's unclear whether the climbers were moving or camping at the time of the accident, Wold said. Searchers located camping and climbing gear and detected signals from avalanche beacons buried in the snow at the top of the Carbon Glacier at 9,500 feet in elevation.
It's also not known what caused the climbers to fall from their last known whereabouts at 12,800 feet on Liberty Ridge, whether it was rock fall or an avalanche.
Glenn Kessler, the park's acting aviation manager, said "they are most likely buried," making recovery efforts even more challenging. They may be in an area too hazardous for rescuers to reach on the ground.
Continuous ice fall and rock fall make the avalanche-prone area too dangerous for rescuers, Wold said. The area will be checked periodically by air in the coming weeks and months, she said. They will also evaluate the potential for a helicopter-based recovery as snow melts and conditions change.
Wold initially said the park on Sunday would release the names of the six who died but later said the park cannot release the names for privacy reasons.
Rob Mahaney told The Associated Press that his 26-year-old nephew, Mark Mahaney, of St. Paul, Minnesota, was among those presumed dead. He said the climber's father and brother flew to Seattle on Saturday after learning what happened.
Mahaney said his nephew had climbed Rainier before.
"He just loved to climb, he loved the outdoors, he loved the exhilaration of being in the wide open," Rob Mahaney said. "Even as a toddler he was always climbing out of his crib. His parents couldn't keep him anywhere - he'd always find a way to get out of anything."
Last year, about 10,800 people attempted to climb the 14,410-foot glaciated peak southeast of Seattle, but only 129 used the Liberty Ridge route, according to park statistics. The vast majority use two other popular routes.
Gordon Janow, director of programs for Alpine Ascents International, said the group was on a five-day climb of the Liberty Ridge route.
The climbers had to meet certain prerequisites, and their ice and technical climbing skills as well as their biography were evaluated by a three-person team, Janow said.
The company's brochure says, at a minimum, those interested in the guided climb were required to be able to physically carry a 50-pound backpack on steep snow and icy slopes, ranging from 30 to 50 degrees in slope.
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Ever thought it would be fun to read an entire novel written in Pig Latin? No? Then you may want to avoid Chuck Palahniuk's novel Pygmy, written in a pidgin English so relentless it almost makes the idea of reading a novel in Pig Latin sound like fun. The author of The Fight Club is this year's Delete Key Awards second runner-up for for:
"Succulent barrier much thrusting mammary glands shield operative me, swinging lady buttocks further thwart attacks."
"Tongue of operative me lick, licking, touching back tooth on bottom, molar where planted inside forms cyanide hollow, touching not biting."
"In greater afraid … within thinking machine operative me, this agent ponder if entire being operative me pitted for destroy American, annihilate homosexual, crackpot Methodist religion, Lutheran and Baptist cult, extinguish all decadent bourgeoisie – subsequent successful total such destruction: Render this agent obsolete? Of no worth?"
Read the shortlisted passages from all the finalists here. You can also follow Janice Harayda (@janiceharayda) on Twitter.
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